Skillful Facilitation for Any Situation with Laird Schaub (Re-Release)

Inside Community Podcast

We're re-releasing this awesome interview with Laird Shaub in preparation for FOUR upcoming classes he's going to be teaching through the FIC!

• https://www.ic.org/designing-a-community-membership-process/ (starts mid Sep)
• ⁠https://www.ic.org/facilitation-in-community/⁠ (starts mid Sep)
• https://www.ic.org/working-with-conflict-in-community/ (starts late Oct)
• https://www.ic.org/participation-and-work-in-community/ (starts late Oct)
  

There are also some re-run courses that are available, on demand:

• https://www.ic.org/consensus-for-communities/⁠
• ⁠https://www.ic.org/power-and-leadership-in-community/⁠

Moving groups through tough decisions can be tricky, if not impossible, without a skilled and well-trained facilitator to hold folks through the process. Laird Schaub joins us today to talk about the how’s and why’s of excellent facilitation. You'll learn from his 40+ years of lived community experience and training in facilitation, and leave with practices you can use in your community conversations.

Read Laird's incredible bio in our show notes at ⁠i⁠⁠c.org/podcast⁠.

Podcast listeners, use this code INSIDE30 and get 30% off ⁠FIC courses⁠. Use code INSIDE20 for 20% off on the ⁠FIC bookstore.⁠

Laird leads a two-year facilitation training program where students meet eight times for intensive 3-day weekends. In addition to classroom time where he teaches the elements of skilled facilitation, half the time is spent preparing for, delivering, and debriefing live facilitation, where the students run the meetings and the trainers are a safety net. For more info email [email protected]

If you want to learn more about facilitation or any aspect of building community, check out the Inside Community Podcast sponsor, The Foundation for Intentional Community. FIC is an incredible resource center with weekly events, online courses, classified advertisements, an extensive bookstore and lots of free educational materials. You can learn more about FIC and access transcripts at ⁠ic.org/podcast⁠. Your financial support of Inside Community helps us to continue to create meaningful and exciting content and I hope you’ll consider ⁠donating⁠!

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